Forsberg staying put

Bob McKenzie, excellent man, excellent reporter for TSN of Canada, got a quote from Vancouver GM Mike Gillis saying that Peter Forsberg told them he won’t play for them or any other NHL team this season. *Well, I guess Gillis told a lot of Canadian reporters that, as I’m watching about 20 mikes in his face right now, on the TSN sports center, but everything about McKenzie remains the same.

Not a big surprise, of course. It just never seems to work out with Foppa anymore with his health. The man has had both a charmed – and a cursed – life.

We’ll pick it up next season when Forsberg starts feeling good again and starts testing out his foot and giving signals he’s thinking of a comeback…
Best wishes, No. 21.

thank god we don't have to hear about this story for at least another year.

JKZ

Will this primadonna just freaking retire from ever, ever attempting any kind of NHL comeback. Enough already! Good lord. Everyone is sick and freaking tired of hearing about this guy EVERY freaking year. Stop the madness!!!

Ken J.

Take a chill pill JKZ. Does it really affect your life that much? If so, than that makes you kinda sad. Forsberg's still got the mojo, he just doesn't have the ankles. I don't blame him for trying. And you're right AD, Mackenzie is the best.

hansis63

I have a bad news for you JKZ . If you wait for Peter Forsberg shall get retire then you must wait. Maybe you get retire before Peter Forsberg !! And i dont think he care about what you think about him.If now he want play hockey then he do that so much he want. He dont need money He have so he survive.You talking about madness Are that madness if you want to play icehockey and you want to play for you love the sport. Maybe you quit. But you are not Peter Forsberg. And what do you mean whit that he is a primadonna . If now you are tiered on to read news then dont fucking read the news. Are you so stupied that you think Peter Forsberg writing what som are in the newspaper. The have nothing els too write.about. And you belive everything som the write in the newspaper Are you really so stupied?

Chris

Wow, is this guy real?

aaroncali

AD, what happened to the article you posted about Stasny earlier today?

vroo34

I'm not exactly sure what hansis63 just said, but Foppa would be an excellent addition to the avalanche organization (maybe next year). #21, please give the burgandy and blue one more good year!

Mikael

It´s not a bad decision. Retiring with the club that raised him and developed him into the player he became seems quite right/natural to me. I hope Mr Naslund dusts off the old skates as well and Modo will definitely have a shot at the title this year. They'll be an interesting team to watch to say the least.And for all you foppa-holics in Denver. don´t worry, at least you´ll get to see him play one more time when he tears up the ice in Vancouver come february. I bet he´ll be hungry and anxious to show all doubters out there how wrong they really were.Foppa in Sweden, who would have thought? I'm getting tickets right away for the next Djurgården-Modo game in Stockholm :)Good riddance Mr Forsberg

hocha

is it me or or you all not a little insulted that mike gillis was the one releasing the news…does that mean the canucks were the front runner to get him? or does mike have the biggest mouth?

As much as I trust McKensie on this… Is there any other source out there other than Gillis who has said this? It seems bizarre that Gillis would be the only man who has the inside scoop here. It also seems very un-forsberg like that he'd tell the Canucks GM this but not LaCroix or Sherman. (It's possible he did tell them and they didn't tell you, but that's another story)

Thrawn

Would it surprise you if this organization already knew this? The Avs organization has always played pretty close to the vest and revealed as little of their agenda as possible.I still haven't overlooked the possibility that the Canucks were trying the hardest to get him. It is still possible they are the ones speaking up to lower the interrest from other teams. Unlikely but it wouldn't surprise me.

Mikael

Actually it´s all out there in Swedish media and comes directly from Peter. The big blockbuster is that in a couple of weeks Markus Naslund will suit up for his old native Modo-club as well. This means that there could be a resurrection of the old Naslund-Forsberg-Sundstrom line.

Megan

Until next year, when comeback number 957 starts being put into the works.

everything I've seen ties it directly to Gillis. No one has even made mention of a Swedish report (and most of the time, they do).

Jason

I read on the Modo website that Foppa and Naslund told the club they do not want to be payed for playing. I'm not going to congratulate millionaires for not taking more money, but it is good to give back to the franchise that they grew up with and gave so much to them

Peter Forsberg ! what a comback! 3 points he could easily feet in nhl. looked really goodafter a few more games he will BE BACK

Sten

So, Forsberg is now suiting up for Modo this whole season and he's got company – Markus Naslund and Dan Hinote. Interesting. Foppa had 3 assists the other night…

stenbacklund

So, Forsberg is now suiting up for Modo this whole season and he's got company – Markus Naslund and Dan Hinote. Interesting. Foppa had 3 assists the other night…

MoDo-fan

And he followed up his three-point night with…another three-point night. 2 goals (one of them a beauty) and one assist against Luleå last night. He's looking really good! His skating seems Ok and he plays his usual agressive style. Simply great to see him back on the ice…

MoDo-fan

And he followed up his three-point night with…another three-point night. 2 goals (one of them a beauty) and one assist against Luleå last night. He's looking really good! His skating seems Ok and he plays his usual agressive style. Simply great to see him back on the ice…

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.

Chambers covers college and professional hockey for The Denver Post. He has written for the Post since 1994, after dumping his first 9-to-5 office job a couple years out of college. He primarily follows the University of Denver hockey team and helps cover the Avalanche.